Total (n=1993)* | Men (n=891) | Women (n=1095) | P value men vs women† | |
Current lower limb tendinopathy‡ | 116 (6) | 68 (8) | 48 (4) | 0.002 |
Current Achilles tendinopathy | 63 (3) | 38 (4) | 25 (2) | 0.012 |
Current patellar tendinopathy | 31 (2) | 20 (2) | 11 (1) | 0.027 |
Current plantar fasciopathy | 25 (1) | 10 (1) | 15 (1) | 0.623 |
Past lower limb tendinopathy‡ | 664 (33) | 344 (39) | 318 (29) | <0.001 |
Past Achilles tendinopathy | 383 (19) | 219 (25) | 163 (15) | <0.001 |
Past patellar tendinopathy | 240 (12) | 124 (14) | 116 (11) | 0.024 |
Past plantar fasciopathy | 152 (8) | 66 (7) | 85 (8) | 0.766 |
Current or past lower limb tendinopathy‡ | 691 (35) | 361 (41) | 328 (30) | <0.001 |
Data are presented as n (%).
*The total population includes five gender-neutral runners and two runners who did not fill in their gender.
†P values were obtained with a Pearson χ2 test; statistical significance (p<0.05) is indicated in bold.
‡Either Achilles tendinopathy, patellar tendinopathy and/or plantar fasciopathy. The prevalence of any injuries is unequal to the sum of the prevalence of the separate injuries because some runners had more than one injury, currently and/or in the past.